Near the start of “Buena Vista Social Club,” singers Ibrahim Ferrer and Omara Portuondo perform the bolero “Silencio. ” In the song, the narrator asks the listener to be quiet – the flowers in his ...

BVSC presents Ibrahim Ferrer is the second album from the series of records by artists who participated in the legendary Buena Vista Social Club sessions, an album which exploded around the world and ...

Anyone who saw the 1997 movie "Buena Vista Social Club" about a group of disparate Cuban musicians who are "rediscovered" after many years and retake the stage to perform in concert remembers the sole ...

Waiters are fussing. Tourists are doing a double take. Cubans are interrupting to deliver the traditional greeting: a loud smacking kiss on one (high-boned) cheek. Used to attention -- long before ...

THERE'S a wonderful moment in Wim Wenders' Buena Vista Social Club film when Omara Portuondo and Ibrahim Ferrer have just finished singing the beautiful Silencio. The song says that if the flowers in ...

Cuban singer Ibrahim Ferrer, one of the stars of the 1990s Buena Vista Social Club CD series, died Saturday (Aug. 6) in Havana at the age of 78. The artist was hospitalized three days earlier with… By ...

OMARA PORTUONDO, Buena Vista Social Club Presents (World Circuit/Nonesuch) The melancholy beauty of Omara Portuondo’s voice echoes fate. The stylish diva’s career took an irrevocable turn during the ...